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Post by Moose on Mar 25, 2014 19:12:26 GMT
Although I started watching Doctor Who as a child and, due to having an ex partner who was rather a fanatic I have seen most of the old stuff that is stil extant, I do much prefer the post 1995 stuff. Better special effects? Better storyline? Better format? (No more seven parters, for instance). I realise that much was changed and certain liberties were taken but I still feel that it 'works' very well both at being new and fresh and at maintaining the 'spirit' of the original.
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Post by Alvamiga on Mar 25, 2014 23:17:27 GMT
I think they both have their own merits and wouldn't want to choose.  Where's the Peter Capaldi forum? |
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Post by Moose on Mar 25, 2014 23:20:21 GMT
Okay don't laugh but I was not sure how to spell his surname. And anyway he has not done anything of note. But - say you HAD to choose between old and new?
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Post by kye on Mar 25, 2014 23:21:43 GMT
I've never taken to the old one. I tried watching a couple of episodes, but it seems very campy to me.
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Post by Alvamiga on Mar 25, 2014 23:23:57 GMT
I think the old stuff suffered mostly by the lack of budget! |
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Post by Moose on Mar 25, 2014 23:27:44 GMT
In a sense it WAS campy but I think that that was part of the charm. Yeah, the sets wobbled and the costumes could veer on the silly side but it was still great fun. Also, each doctor had his own idiosyncrasies .. some of which are rather charmingly recreated to this day (the jelly babies thing, for instance)
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Post by Alvamiga on Mar 25, 2014 23:30:21 GMT
I miss the assistants screaming into the end music!  |
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Post by kaylee on Mar 26, 2014 7:06:40 GMT
Frank watched the old one when he was growing up. He said when he was a little child, he was scared of the Daleks. I'd love to watch the old Dr. Who episodes, but we're still catching up on the new one.
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elshobokshy
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Post by elshobokshy on Mar 26, 2014 17:26:30 GMT
I've really never seen Dr. Who before, is this not the right place for me? |
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Post by cloister on Mar 26, 2014 19:08:58 GMT
I tried the new series as soon as it started after becoming completely hooked (and some might say obsessive) on the classic series in the early 90s. I watched Chris Ecclestone and the first two David Tennant seasons, and kind of gave up. I like shorter episodes, cliffhangers (terrible though some of them were!) and the creativity that went into trying to realise things on such a tight budget. I also didn't like the 'next week' bits at the end of the news series episodes, especially after cliffhangers. You're not meant to give the game away straight off!!
I realise this probably isn't going to be a popular view here, but go easy on me!
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Post by Moose on Mar 26, 2014 19:15:36 GMT
Hey everyone is welcome here (even Islam just above you, who apparently hasn't even SEE the show ). I actually have a friend who I am hoping will join soon who is like you, very very into the old stuff. I like the old stuff too and have seen virtually all that is available, though I do tend to prefer new. |
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Post by erekose on Mar 26, 2014 22:22:07 GMT
The original episodes tended to pendulate (? is that a word?) from a story about History, and a story about Science Fiction.
The first for example being "An Unearthly child", apart from the introduction of the TARDIS etc, the story was basically historical.
It also showed the enigmatic nature of The Doctor, some never resolved.
For example, the fact that he was capable of cold blooded murder.
Then this was followed by "The Daleks", again, another classic story, introducing other dark facets of the Doctors nature.
Then, after Hartnells tenure, it tended to merge the SF with the historical, loosing some of its nature
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Post by Moose on Mar 26, 2014 22:35:32 GMT
I liked An Unearthly Child though I found it very old fashioned. Not Who as I know it and Hartnell does seem to me in many ways to have been just a prototype Doctor .. not what the later ones became.
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Post by miisa on Mar 27, 2014 7:10:04 GMT
It feels a little unfair to vote, as I have never really had the chance to see old Who.
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Post by tangent on Mar 27, 2014 10:09:13 GMT
I remember hardly anything of the old series apart from the fact that it was very predictable. You could explain the plot in 15 words or fewer.
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elshobokshy
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Post by elshobokshy on Mar 27, 2014 16:40:40 GMT
I'll go for new, as I love good graphics  |
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Post by sherry on Mar 27, 2014 17:46:54 GMT
I first remember seeing Doctor Who on our public access channel late on Saturday nights way back in the day, I thought this is such a weird show and was hooked from that moment on I was ecstatic when the satellite company I use started to carry BBC America and I found Doctor Who again after not seeing it for so many years an am glad to have bumped into a fellow fan in Moose and Islam while playing around on my comp |
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Post by Moose on Mar 27, 2014 18:55:55 GMT
Well that was sort of the fun of it though I think that the new stuff is much less geared to children than the old used to be. Some of it is definitely not suitable for young children at all. |
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Post by Alvamiga on Mar 27, 2014 20:18:45 GMT
There's only so much you can do with a length of rubber hose and some fairy lights!  |
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Post by cloister on Mar 30, 2014 18:05:54 GMT
But they had to make the brick walls wobble and cliff faces billow somehow! |
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Post by Alvamiga on Mar 30, 2014 22:56:05 GMT
The brick walls were not wobbling! It was a time-distortion anomaly! |
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Post by Moose on Apr 2, 2014 18:47:40 GMT
I liked the old Cybermen better I must say. I mean the really really old ones, right from the beginning.
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